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...flap over Deaver may have more to do with what he represents than what he did. "He's just a symbol of what's wrong with our system," says Democratic Senator David Pryor of Arkansas. "There's a sense we've all allowed this situation with lobbying fees, big-money elections and influence peddling to get out of control...
...Deaver is the target of probes by the GAO, the Justice Department and the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. At issue is whether he illegally represented private clients on matters he dealt with as an Administration official. Deaver has asked that an independent counsel be appointed to look into the charges...
Among other matters, the congressional probers are investigating: Deaver's role in negotiating a settlement for the Daewoo Corp., a big South Korean steel- maker that violated American import restrictions; his efforts on behalf of Rockwell International to persuade the Government to buy more B-1 bombers; and his lobbying for Puerto Rico to retain tax breaks worth $600 million a year to the island's economy. So far, the investigations have publicly produced no evidence of wrongdoing. They have stirred up some smoke, however, by poking into Deaver's efforts on behalf of Canada concerning the issue of acid...
...Deaver may have participated in as many as 15 U.S.-Canadian discussions of acid rain before he left the White House last May, said James F. Hinchman, the GAO deputy general counsel, who testified last week before the investigations subcommittee chaired by Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan. For example, said Hinchman, Deaver actively supported a proposal, later accepted by the Reagan Administration, that the U.S. and Canada appoint special envoys to deal with the acid-rain problem. Less than a week after he quit his White House job, Deaver began talks with Canadian officials that eventually...
Federal law bars former Executive Branch employees from ever lobbying the Government on a "particular matter" in which they "personally and substantially" participated while in office. Violators can be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to two years in prison. Deaver insists that "I was never involved personally or substantially on the substantive issue of acid rain. I couldn't tell you today what acid rain means." According to the GAO, however, Deaver and Canadian officials met with Drew Lewis, the special U.S. envoy on acid rain, to discuss the content and timing of the envoy's report, which...